Rant Already! June Oh you want to!

[kaylasdad99]

@flatlined

Not really a rant, this is just odd. I do needlework. I’ve been in several guilds, and a few of the little old ladies have said that they have written me into their wills. They want their needlework supplies and tools to go to someone who will appreciate and use them, and they knew their kids/grands etc. would just dump them.

Yesterday, I got a package and a letter from an executor saying that one of my stitching friends had passed away and that this was the first of 4 boxes I was going to get.

Sad about stitching friend. Happy to be remembered and to get the stuff. I will think of her every time I use it and will remember her when I look at things I’ve made with her fibers.

The confusing part is that there was a check for $2,000 as well. I’m not family, I wasn’t even a close friend, just someone who shared a hobby with her. I’m going to call the executor tomorrow and ask about if there was some mistake. I don’t want to take stuff that her family wants, and of course they would want the money.

Like I said, not a rant, just very odd.

Check the package again. There may be a letter indicating that she’s commissioned you to make her a headstone cozy.

@Anonymous User

Personally, I hate the term “fuckwit”. I don’t know why, but it pisses me off.

Every time I see that word, my inner narrator pronounces it “foo - KWEE.”

[saje]

@LavenderBlue

We have a neighbor who feeds the stray cats but gives them minimal vet care and does not get them stayed or neutered. The other day my husband came home practically sobbing because a little tiny kitten came to him as he was walking past her house. The kitten jumped in his arms. It had some sort of terrible eye infection. He brought me over and showed it to me. I knocked on the neighbor’s door and she said she might have some meds that could help but admitted the mother cat wasn’t fixed and was having litters.

ARGH!

Does anyone know of an organization that might help fix the kitten factories around here?

Ally Cat Allies is based in VA, but they have contacts all over the place plus their site has some good info on it. Here’s the form I used to contact someone in our area who had cat traps to lend: Get Help and Advice for Cats and Kittens | Alley Cat Allies

If you google feral cat TNR and your city or county name you also might get some contacts. Also see if there are any cat-specific vets near you, they may have suggestions too.

[EmilyG]

We need some harsh and unusual punishment for people who spell the word “definitely” as “defiantly.” I know the English language has a lot of weird spellings and pronunciations, but come on, “defiantly” doesn’t even look like it should be pronounced as “definitely.” (And this mistake is usually made by people whose mother tongue is English.)

Sheesh.

[Kobal2]

For fuck’s sake, what is up with the weather ? Parisian summers are always unbearably hot, they even have to distribute little water sprays to the old so they don’t just keel over in the heat… But it’s June 4 and I have a cold. A fucking *cold *! It’s supposed to be summer. Scantily dressed art students in every park, people sipping syrupy drinks at outdoors cafés, smoking lots of very thin cigarettes… not parkas and pullovers as far as the eye can see !
I demand a proper season.

[Kimballkid]

@Morbo

I played the ketchup game at lunch again.

“Can I have ten ketchups?”
::gives me three::
“Can I now have seven more ketchups?”
::two more::
“I now need five ketchups.”
::three more::
“Aaaand two more, and we’re done.”
::two more::
“Thanks!”

Maybe they can’t count so good. You should have told them to give you one ketchup for each finger they had, that may have helped them along.

[Ludovic]

@EmilyG

We need some harsh and unusual punishment for people who spell the word “definitely” as “defiantly.” I know the English language has a lot of weird spellings and pronunciations, but come on, “defiantly” doesn’t even look like it should be pronounced as “definitely.” (And this mistake is usually made by people whose mother tongue is English.)

Sheesh.

I defiantly agree with you on this, and nothing anyone says will change my mind!

[koeeoaddi]

Fuck you, big-ass rattlesnake!

Look. I know I live in your desert and I respect your right to slither around in it with impunity, but would it be too much to ask that you detour around the small walled in area where I take my dog instead of scaring the everloving shit out of me?

[purplehorseshoe]

I’m sure you startled the snake, too!

I’ve decided to take myself off citalopram. Been on it for a couple of years and feel like I’ve really gotten a handle on my emotions and mood swings enough (artifically) that now I’ve “re-learned” how to handle them naturally on my own.

So I kinda feel like crap as I muscle through the (mostly minor) withdrawal symptoms.
I just hope I don’t turn back into a psychotic weeping bitch…

[Nava]

@Kimballkid

Maybe they can’t count so good. You should have told them to give you one ketchup for each finger they had, that may have helped them along.

They would’a excluded thumbs. Mind you, that still would have brought the initial count to eight, hopefully.

[Cat_Whisperer]

flatlined, maybe the little old lady knew about your cat rescue efforts, and wanted to contribute something towards them.

[cmkeller]

Fuck you, New York State.

When I got convicted of a traffic violation, it was less than a week before you sent me a bill for the additional “Driver Responsibility Assessment” money.

The four-figure tax refund I’m supposed to get from you? Two months, still waiting. Something good for me, you somehow have trouble getting into the mail.

[Kimballkid]

Do they have direct deposit? Should have chosen that option.

[cmkeller]

You can only get Direct Deposit if you E-File, and I can’t E-File because I needed to fill out form 213-ATT which for some reason needs to be on paper.

The Federal I E-Filed and got my refund back nice and fast and yes, directly deposited.

[Kimballkid]

I received an ‘Important Tax Return Document’ in the mail yesterday. I don’t know about anyone else, but my taxes were due on April 15. Luckily, it wasn’t anything ‘Important’ and won’t change anything.

[eulalia]

@Kimballkid

I received an ‘Important Tax Return Document’ in the mail yesterday. I don’t know about anyone else, but my taxes were due on April 15. Luckily, it wasn’t anything ‘Important’ and won’t change anything.

I just got my HSA thing for last year. It’s because you can still make contributions for the prior year up to April 15. Probably the same thing in your case.

[Kimballkid]

Pretty close, it was for my Roth IRA and that can’t be deducted on income tax anyway so no biggie.

In your case, what to you do with it? Do you just use it when you do your 2013 taxes even though part is for 2012?

[LavenderBlue]

@flatlined

SurrenderDorothy I am sad and worried for you. A friend of mine who worked for a different rescue group when through that. It was really bad and hit the kittens hardest. I hope your shelter has a better outcome.

EmilyG we do this out of love. We don’t like to have animals put down and we often cry when it happens. The thing that keeps most of us going is that we are able to save many more than we lose.

I just checked your profile, and it only gave a state. Can you be a little more specific location? You can PM me if you don’t feel comfortable posting it here.

However, failing me finding anything for you, I’d suggest you start by calling the local Humane Society and asking them for help. They might not be able to help you, but they might be able to give you suggestions and phone numbers for the local rescue groups.

Depending on your relationship with the neighbor, you could also call Animal Control and report her. This will probably have a bad outcome for the sick cats, but if the eyes are swollen and covered with so much goo that their eyelids are trying to stick shut, being put down humanely instead of dying hungry and in pain outside, while infecting other cats might not be such a bad thing afterall.

I don’t know what the laws are like in your neck of the woods, but in Arizona cats that entered your yard were fair game. If she was my neighbor, her cats would have found my feeding station and I would have started trapping them and taking them to the vet to have euthed, fixed and adopted out or fixed and returned. I would have left her one kitten and one adult cat, and then every time she got another kitten or cat, I would have had it fixed and adopted out. She always got very sweet teenager cats who loved attention and were obviously housecats and would put them outside. Ticked me off, it did.

That was how I handled my neighbor. The trick is that I had resources that you don’t. That’s why my first suggestion is that you call the human society. They know of groups who might help you, and if those groups can’t, they might know people who can.

There are a lot of us out there. It might take some phone work to find help, but help is out there.

@saje

Ally Cat Allies is based in VA, but they have contacts all over the place plus their site has some good info on it. Here’s the form I used to contact someone in our area who had cat traps to lend: Get Help and Advice for Cats and Kittens | Alley Cat Allies

If you google feral cat TNR and your city or county name you also might get some contacts. Also see if there are any cat-specific vets near you, they may have suggestions too.

Thanks. I’ll see what I can do when I have a chance.

[bobkitty]

Since the thread has (smartly) already been moved to MPSIMS, and since I don’t believe that he rises to the importance of having his own pit thread, I hereby say the following in a hearty, heartfelt, most sincere manner:

I hope you realize what an incredibly insensitive, brainless, fuckwit of a wannabe hack you are, Anonymous User. Screw that dumbass threadshit of a post you made. Nothing- absolutely nothing, no apology in the world, or excuse of “I’m still a baby whose brain is growing and I have no clue how the real world works! Oopsy!”- will be sufficient to make up for kicking a man while he’s that low. I hope someday when you are at an equally low point, reaching out to a group of people that you believe could at least sympathize with your plight, that the first person who comes along metaphorically kicks you square in your undescended testicles and LAUGHS before spitting on you, so that perhaps you can have a glimmer of understanding of what you just did.
Link.

[bobkitty]

@purplehorseshoe

I’ve decided to take myself off citalopram. Been on it for a couple of years and feel like I’ve really gotten a handle on my emotions and mood swings enough (artifically) that now I’ve “re-learned” how to handle them naturally on my own.

Sorry to hear about the withdrawal, but best of luck!! I assume that since you’re a smart Shoe, you’re following instructions on safe tapering of your dosages. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that you don’t become weepy or psychotic, but sometimes we all need to be a bit of a bitch.

[Cat_Whisperer]

Yeah, that wasn’t cool. I have a feeling Anonymous User was trying to make a point, but I have no idea what it was, and the end result was that he made someone who feels really bad feel a little bit worse. Not cool.

ETA: Dammit, bobkitty!